Re: Is there a genealogy Wiki anywhere?

atraymond-monarchies@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Done
> 
> My understanding on the way you think is that I bet your thoughts for
> example on Wikepedia is based on a misconception. You need to refer to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
to get a little
> understanding of it's limitations and authenticity.
> 
> There is nothing to indicate that individuals who write articles for
> Wikepedia are not experts on their own field. 

In general, the identify of Wikipedia editors is unknown, but there are
many administrators of the project who are high school students as young
as age 12.  The head of Wikipedia Switzerland is a 15 year old.

There are multiple stories of professors who are chased off and banned
by Wikipedia by undergrads and high school students who did not like
the "experts" opinions.

I for one use Wikepedia
> as a secondary useful source for a particular area of personal
> interest, I don't accept Wikepedia as being 100% correct and check
> other sources. However whenever I find an error in Wikepedia I'm able
> to correct it immediately, any amendments are trackable and can be
> undone if need be. For my own particular field of interest I have only
> found a small number of errors in alarge number of Wikepedia articles.
> 
This is often false.  Popular articles will be defended by "owners" who
will often not allow any changes to "their" article.

> The beauty of Wikepedia is that it can be changed in the blink of an
> eye, I would guess far quicker than if it was left to your experts to
> dither and dally on deciding whether to accept the changes if they
> were in charge of their own on-line encyclopaedia.
> 
> And by the way it is free.
> 
> Allan Raymond
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 7, 7:42 pm, "Don Moody" <dpmo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I hope you never hear of such a thing, if by a Wiki you mean the
>> original model where anybody can submit anything and muck about with
>> the submissions of others but there is no expert refereeing and no
>> rejection of opinionated nonsense.
>>
>> If you want an on-line encyclopaedia of real worth, it has got to be
>> written by experts, refereed by experts, edited by experts, and
>> maintained in an ongoing way by experts. Those experts, being human
>> beings, will need money to live on. A hell of a lot of money for a
>> hell of a lot of expertise.
>>
>> Where is that money going to come from?  And if your answer is Pay Per
>> View, then who is going to provide the many millions of capital to set
>> the thing up before the first viewer pays?
>>
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